Resources and tutorials for Webmasters
Resources and tutorials for Webmasters

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Navegg : Your Visitors Behavio


Navegg is an open and free recommendation and content customization system. We collect user navigation data from Navegg's partner sites and extract, using multivariate analysis, the demographic profile of each visitor. With that information you know your audience better, and can dynamically make your content more relevant or target advertising more efficiently.

Navegg determines demographics and interests using a small snippet of JavaScript code on your site's pages. Using that data, we set up reports that show how many men, women, sports fans, and so on, visited your site. Check this example.

You can also use Navegg's API to dynamically adapt your site to each user. Imagine showing sports news to men with that type of interest. Or set your ad network to show female perfums on your site when a woman visits your site. Or even set Google Analytics to track visitors by interest. Navegg offers you those features and much more for free!

Make your content more relevant and your audience will grow; target your audience more efficiently and your advertiser (and you!) will have higher ROI. Join now!


Monday, November 9, 2009

Gorgeous Examples of Floral Typography


Floral typography is the technique that combines typography, calligraphy and lettering to create dynamic, “flourishing” designs. With the help of floral elements you can create very tempting and vivid artworks in which the typography seems to be shaped by plants and flowers. In this way you can convey your message in a very artistic way.

In fact, various floral ornaments – which are the essential component of floral typography – can make the design stand out and help the artist to create inspiring, refreshing and thought-provoking pieces of art.

Below you’ll find a beautiful collection of floral typography and also some outstanding tutorials that will help you to master the technique or at least get some understanding of how this technique can be used.



Friday, November 6, 2009

Repper : Images become patterns


Repper is a free-to-use pattern creator that turns your images into eye-catching designs. It's the easiest way to create beautiful patterns for your desktop or social profile background.

You can use Repper to create unique background patterns for your social profiles or your personal webpage. Or use it for posters or business cards, to design textile patterns or whatever you can think of; your imagination is your only limit!

View many other marvelous designs in the gallery. All designs can be used publicly under the Creative Commons license for non-commercial use .

Step instuctions
  • Load a random example image or upload your own image load random or own image
  • Resize & drag the box to change the pattern bounding box
  • Save your design. You can either link to it from your social profile or webpage, or download the pattern to your computer.

Friday, October 30, 2009

PDF to Excel : The Most Accurate PDF-to-Excel Converter


Use PDF to Excel to quickly and easily create highly-editable XLS files, making it a cinch to re-use tables and spreadsheets from PDF files in Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice, Google Docs, and WordPerfect Office. Best of all, it's entirely free!.

The convention is done automatically meaning that you do not have to manually tell where each table is, the application also tries to match the appearance of converted file to original.

Features:
  • Online PDF to Excel converter.
  • Convert as many files as you want.
  • The conversions are automatic, you do not have manually show where the tables are.
  • Keeps output file similar to original as much as possible.
  • Free and no registration.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

WYMeditor : Web-based XHTML editor


WYMeditor is a web-based WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) XHTML editor (not WYSIWYG).

WYMeditor's main concept is to leave details of the document's visual layout, and to concentrate on its structure and meaning, while trying to give the user as much comfort as possible (at least as WYSIWYG editors).

WYMeditor has been created to generate perfectly structured XHTML strict code, to conform to the W3C XHTML specifications and to facilitate further processing by modern applications.

With WYMeditor, the code can't be contaminated by visual informations like font styles and weights, borders, colors, ...
The end-user defines content meaning, which will determine its aspect by the use of style sheets. The result is easy and quick maintenance of information.

As the code is compliant to W3C XHTML specifications, you can for example process it using a XSLT (at the client or the server side), giving you a wide range of applications.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Closr.it : Zoom and Share your images for free


Closr.it is now open to the public by a few weeks. This open initiative enables users to freely store and share high-resolution images. Images are processed on the server and partitioned into tiles as much as Google Maps does for its aerial pictures.

The widgets also have some other useful functions, like a full-screen button, and another button that resets the photo to its starting size. There's minimal branding and excess junk attached to them, too, so they're not going to make your site look terrible when you embed them. If you have the particular problem of finding a way to display your large photos, Closr might be the solution.

Visup is the smart company behind Closr.it and they have chosen haXe to develop the Flash viewer.



Friday, October 2, 2009

Online Image Optimizer- GIF, JPG, and PNG


Online Image Optimizer lets you easily optimize your gifs, animated gifs, jpgs, and pngs, so they load as fast as possible on your site. Furthermore, you can easily convert from one image type to another.

The interface is quite simple as shown below; you can either load an image from your computer or directly using a URL link. The service is limited to original images under 300KB, but other than that it’s very quick and easy to use.

Once the image file has been selected, you can click on the optimize button, to get the results, if you wish to change the file format as well, use the drop-down menu to get the options as shown above, also you can use the checkbox in order to get all the results (this allows you to easily make the best choice, so that the optimized image you use doesn’t look very pixilated).

If you use a lot of images on your sites, they can slow down page loading times if you don’t optimize the images for website use. Adobe Photoshop is very expensive to buy just to optimize images, but luckily their are some good free online alternatives out there.